Re: Explain Spicebomb To Me !!!

Originally Posted by mesaboogie

It's like Viktor and Rolf took the best parts of several other fragrances and put them into an awesome grenade shaped bottle. I like Spicebomb but I find the longevity and projection to be lacking for a $90 bottle of designer smell good.

Hmmm... Ever tried their other bottle a called Antidote. Not really they same scent but that bottle had a lot of notes going on in that and when you say that they seem to take the best part of all frags and inputted them into one frag...to me it sounds like viktor and Rolf has in mind that they just throw a bunch in one and you may not like it that much but you can hate it either now I tested spicebomb one time and to me it smelt good but it has been done before...like one million without that bubblegum smell. Now I thought it be more spicier but its still a good scent...not for 90$ though.

Re: Explain Spicebomb To Me !!!

Originally Posted by Jean-Francois

This fragrance seems to be catching everyone´s attention......and in a positive way.
I have tried it now 6 or 7 times - both on tester strips and of course, on the skin.
It´s not that I hate it, but I find it very run-of-the-mill /nothing special; modern chemical fragrance.
So many people are raving about this one. Why ?
In my collection of perfumes I have 2 spicebombs. Real spicebombs : Loewe Pour Homme and Monsieur Rochas, (both vintage). These are to my nose about a thousand times better than Spicebomb. I will keep trying it, in the hope that suddenly something will "click" and I will understand what all the fuss is about.

Spicebomb is a very good scent and I really like it, flaws (price and projection) aside.

If you don't like Spicebomb, don't feel obligated to. It's a hit-or-miss scent. So you are perfectly legitimate in feeling it is overrated.

Re: Explain Spicebomb To Me !!!

Originally Posted by ToughCool

Wearing this now. It's been 1 hour and really from the initial squirt until now all I get is a sweet cinnamon accord. Like Dentyne gum. Not horrible but nothing I'd wear again. BTW, when did SAs get so lazy? This was a Nordstroms and the SA was nice but when asked about suggestions I got Boss Bottled Night and Gucci Guilty Intense.

Unfortunately, around here, this is Nordstroms top of the line fragrance, so you can imagine what the choices we have.

Re: Explain Spicebomb To Me !!!

Originally Posted by MonkeyBars

I didn't like it at all. Very dense, dry (in the wetness sense) and annoyingly sweet. I tend to like more "spacious" fragrances with a structure that has depth to it. Spicebomb has an opaqueness and flatness that rubs me the wrong way. Great bottle though. It's about time somewhat came out with a grenade frag (pun intended) bottle.

I agree there is a bluntness and flattened quality to main body of the scent. It's okay but I'm not tempted to buy it.

Re: Explain Spicebomb To Me !!!

I'm pretty ambivalent towards this one. Was very excited about it based on the early reviews, but was only lukewarm about it when I got a sample. My partner really disliked it, which put the final in the coffin of my interest for it.